On July 16, 2020, Europe’s Court of Justice issued a much-anticipated judgment on the validity of Decision 2016/1250 on the adequacy of the EU-US Data Protection Shield (the “US/EU Privacy Shield”) and Decision 2010/87 on Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”).

The Court invalidated the US/EU Privacy Shield finding that “the limitations on the protection of personal data arising from the domestic law of the United States ... are not circumscribed in a way that satisfies requirements that are essentially equivalent to those required under EU law.”